Pros

Pro

Excellent for light-duty use

For basic tasks, such as browsing the web and working with text editor it's perfectly sufficient and very reliable. It doesn't freeze suddenly or heat up even running for hours at a time.

Pro

Decent battery life

The laptop lasts up to 6.5 hours on one full charge.

Pro

Lots of storage

Laptop's SATA hard drive has 1 TB of storage, or enough space to keep 40 days worth of films.

Pro

Good performance for the price

The Swift 3 performs quite well for the price and laptop class it belongs to. Everyday tasks are handled without problem, multitasking is not a problem neither, and it can also play some lightweight games (DoTA, LoL, Team Fortress 2) at decent framerates as well as some more demanding software such as Photoshop and Mathlab without overheating the hardware or lagging.

Pro

Upgradeable storage

Unfortunately the CPU and RAM are soldered on the motherboard so they can't be upgraded, however the storage is not and can be easily swapped and upgraded if one needs to do so.

Pro

Portable

The Swift 3 is a pretty light and compact laptop. It weight around 3.35 lbs and is 0.7″ thick. The screen size is 14" which is well within the small category as far as laptop screens go.

Pro

Good battery life

The Swift 3 can get a good 10 hours of use (sometimes even more) with simple tasks such as web browsing or watching videos. This is true for both the models with i3 and i5 CPUs.

Pro

Great trackpad

The trackpad is a bit larger than average and feels great to the touch, albeit a bit rougher than most trackpads out there. It performs really well with standard swipes, taps, and gestures and has no stuttering or jumpiness.

Pro

Decent keyboard

The keys have a slightly concave shape and a soft finishing which makes them feel great to touch and they also provide pretty good feedback.

Pro

Great build quality

For an entry model, the Acer Swift 3 has great build quality. The chassis is solid and there's absolutely no bending in either the chassis or the hood. The outer case is built from aluminum and the inner chassis is made of plastic.

Cons

Con

Poor display quality

The computer has a 720p display, which provides decent image quality, but far from the best available. This is especially frustrating since you can get a similar Acer laptop with 1080p display for just extra $50.

Con

Fairly noisy

The Acer Swift 3 has two small fans which sit on the CPU and GPU. Unfortunately they are rather agressive and start spinning even at low temperatures. Even something as simple as opening a browser will prompt both fans to start spinning quite fast. If you also keep in mind that both these fans have a fairly high pitched hum, then it's soon clear that this laptop is not the quietest on the market.

Con

Comes with some bloatware

The Swift 3 comes with some bloatware out of the box which may influence performance, especially if you are using a model with 4GB RAM.